Layered List Labeling
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Michael A. Bender, Alex Conway, Martin Farach-Colton, Hanna Komlós, William KuszmaulAuthors Info & Claims
Michael A. Bender, Alex Conway, Martin Farach-Colton, Hanna Komlós, William KuszmaulAuthors Info & ClaimsArticle No.: 101, Pages 1 - 19
Abstract
The list-labeling problem is one of the most basic and well-studied algorithmic primitives in data structures, with an extensive literature spanning upper bounds, lower bounds, and data management applications. The classical algorithm for this problem, dating back to 1981, has amortized cost O(log bn). Subsequent work has led to improvements in three directions: low-latency (worst-case) bounds; high-throughput (expected) bounds; and (adaptive) bounds for important workloads.
Perhaps surprisingly, these three directions of research have remained almost entirely disjoint---this is because, so far, the techniques that allow for progress in one direction have forced worsening bounds in the others. Thus there would appear to be a tension between worst-case, adaptive, and expected bounds. List labeling has been proposed for use in databases at least as early as PODS'99, but a database needs good throughput, response time, and needs to adapt to common workloads (e.g., bulk loads), and no current list-labeling algorithm achieve good bounds for all three.
We show that this tension is not fundamental. In fact, with the help of new data-structural techniques, one can actually combine any three list-labeling solutions in order to cherry-pick the best worst-case, adaptive, and expected bounds from each of them.
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